guitar tracks for " Somewhere There ' s Hope " on those demos . And I remember I had to try to get as far enough away from my amp as possible where my guitar wouldn ' t feedback . And we didn ' t have a headphone extension cable , so the headphones were pulling off my head . One ear was hanging out , pulling on the cable , it was really uncomfortable .
Well , I played the guitar track like that , and I just wasn ' t thinking about it . I just was having fun . We were laughing . And no joke ... that was the track that ' s on Steve ' s album ! They literally transferred it off of this demo we did in a really janky environment because the performance had the heart the track needed . When I was in a controlled environment in the studio , I just wasn ' t feeling it .
So again , that inspiration factor ' s huge for people . Doesn ' t matter if you use a POD or Kemper or Fractal or a full Marshall stack from ' 69 . It ' s whatever gets you there , whatever makes you go , " I love using this , and it makes me play like I can play ."
[ WM ] That was a great answer . Let ' s talk about the other side . What have you learned through this period from the leadership side of things ?
[ Lincoln ] Well , are you talking about through the pandemic and stuff ?
[ WM ] Yes , just what you ' ve been doing lately and how you ' re doing with it . You ' ve always been really good at teaching at our Christian Musician Summit conferences about how important it is for a pastor and worship leader to lead a team .
[ Lincoln ] Yeah , I think one of the books in scripture I would encourage everybody who ' s reading this to go dive into is the Book of James . I mentioned this on the Worship Musician Chapel that I did for you guys .
I went on a thing where I read that book every day for a month . And then I ' ve read it many
Lincoln with Paul Baloche at the Chrisitan Musician Summit at Our Savior Lutheran in Tacoma , WA .
times since . And I got to the point where I went , staff here in California . And we were all isolated , " If I could do what ' s in this book consistently , so I was kind of double isolated . And I didn ' t that ' s pretty much you ' re doing good ”. have an active role in ministry at the time , and the mission , the goal , was to try to catch my I happened to have gone on a Sabbatical that breath and take some time off . started about 10 days before the lockdowns hit . So I wasn ' t involved heavily in ... actually I And so here was a couple of things that wasn ' t involved at all in what we were doing happened as a result of that , that were really ministry-wise at Bayside Church where I am on good for me and really hard . One was to find an identity outside of what I do . And man , that was a crazy process . And I could have talked to you about that two years ago , and we could have had a good conversation about it . But having to actually do it ... I ' m not talking about a fictitious situation where , " Oh , what would that be like for me ?" I had to live it . I had to actually be isolated from people and then be isolated